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#2 Unfortunately I won't be able to watch this street urchin's teevee announcement. I'll be hunched over my reloading bench with some Paganiniana playing softly in the background. I'm doing it for the kids.

"I am writing to ask you to STOP gun violence," wrote Tajeah, a 10-year-old from Georgia. "I am very sad about the children who lost their lives. So, I thought I would write to you to STOP gun violence."

"Eleven-year-old Julia, who lives in the District of Columbia and dotted the "I'' in her name with a heart, wrote that she has four brothers and sisters and "I know I would not be able to bear the thought of losing any of them." She said it should be "very hard" for people to buy guns and closed by acknowledging that Obama can't do it alone."

#13 He has all but one media on his side. He has all the unions on his side. He has every left winged moonbat treehugging idiot on his side. Face it, He has it beat before he even starts. Expect it, expect it to pass, expect it to pass the SC, Expect them to require a turn in of weapons, Expect to be called a baby killer if you disagree, expect them to ID you in public, Expect to be labled a criminal for not turning in your weapon when they ask for it.

#15 Point of order: since when did the senate originate legislation, constitutionally? Just another sign of how badly our republic has degenerated toward an mobocracy controlled by oligarchs, and governed by decree AKA executive orders.